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MScott2273 · **Posted**: 10-12-2006 12:34 AM

Here is a concept design of mine called the U.S.S Century NCC-1900 Century class starship its a heavy cruiser configuration.

The pics are a rough model of what it would look like. I modeled this in sketchup 5

Paegus · **Posted**: 10-12-2006 12:36 AM

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Sandtrooper · **Posted**: 10-12-2006 12:38 AM

Not bad...

MScott2273 · **Posted**: 10-12-2006 12:40 AM

the nacelle pylons are very similar to the ambassador class, this took me 3 hrs to model, sketchup 5 doesnt have any sphere primitives so i had to make the ramscoops and the deflector from scratch

CaptainRussell · **Posted**: 10-12-2006 02:35 AM

That's really good work and a nice easy model to start with for your ship.

-CR

**Raven Night** · **Posted**: 10-12-2006 03:22 AM

I like it....very pre-TOS, excellent

MScott2273 · **Posted**: 10-12-2006 04:04 AM

thx for the positive remarks, ill keep working on this one

N1GH7H4WK · **Posted**: 10-12-2006 03:41 PM

YOU'RE WELCOME for the idea. Evil or Very Mad

I should report you, since I posted that pic before in the graphics art forum, but you are allowed to make it.
I was going to name it Chancellor, in reference to the Ambassador.
look here

MScott2273 · **Posted**: 10-12-2006 04:43 PM

like i said, this is a rough design, i had planned on adding an angle to the pylons since the current design might have been done before.

MScott2273 · **Posted**: 10-12-2006 10:28 PM

here is an updated pic, ive made some modifications to the nacelle pylons

Phaser · **Posted**: 10-12-2006 11:01 PM

Say, that looks pretty spiffy from the back! Nice work.

MScott2273 · **Posted**: 10-13-2006 05:44 AM

here are some sketches of it, they look better i think than the model

admiral horton · **Posted**: 10-13-2006 09:51 AM

the second group of pics look better but you've got a long way before you get a great ship design

MScott2273 · **Posted**: 10-15-2006 06:46 PM

here is a better model of the saucer, as im starting work on the whole ship

**starforce2** · **Posted**: 10-15-2006 07:57 PM

Now that is really starting to look like something you'd expect to see on the starfleet museum chart. Nice work indeed.

Imperial_Destroyer · **Posted**: 10-15-2006 10:52 PM

umm, minor nitpick, the new century started on 1901 not 1900, if you ment to capture the start of a new century with the number
other than that nice ship

MScott2273 · **Posted**: 10-16-2006 01:27 AM

Adonis · **Posted**: 10-16-2006 01:57 PM

Now, I onlu have two crits:
1)The nacelle struts look flimsy on the top view, I think that a straight 45deg trailing edge one would suit her better, and make her look even more though (as in structural survivabilty type though).
2)You have way too many windows on the outter sides of the struts. I'd go with only 2 or 3, 4 at most, wince they only should be the chamber below the warp engine maitanance.

I like this ship. We don't get much TOS era fan designs that make sence Wink

P.S. If you need help in learning 3DSMax, just drop me a line on MSN Exclamation

MScott2273 · **Posted**: 01-18-2007 04:40 AM

ok i know its been a long time since ive updated this project(other things IRL interfered), but i redesigned the saucer section. This pic is about 2hrs work. It sits at over 15k polys(ugg...) but I will reduce them when i finish the ship

Edit: Ugg, i forgot about not putting pics as attachments, now that ive hosted them theyre working

MScott2273 · **Posted**: 01-18-2007 08:28 AM

Heres another 4hrs work, 2 pics. I finished the Secondary hull and the nacelles, just have to make the nacelle pylons and finish up the neck, put on the impulse drive and im close to done! The bad thing is its almost 45k polys!!

moed · **Posted**: 01-18-2007 11:30 PM

Looks very promising.

MScott2273 · **Posted**: 01-19-2007 06:51 AM

Whew! another update, this time i finished the nacelle pylons and the neck. Also added the impulse engines and did some light detail on the deflector dish. Added the sensor dish also.

CaptainRussell · **Posted**: 01-20-2007 01:45 AM

Looks very good, an excellent model to start with since it can be made very easily from simple primitives like spheres and cylinders. Cool

-CR

MScott2273 · **Posted**: 01-20-2007 06:17 AM

To start with?? I used mostly splines and a few primitives here and there. This is gona be my model to put in-game, with a few more refinements.

MScott2273 · **Posted**: 01-20-2007 06:18 AM

double post

DJ Curtis · Admiral Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 2381 Location: Canada

Excellent mesh, it looks great. Very nicely modeled.

Phaser · **Posted**: 02-04-2007 02:25 AM

Very nice! Good job!

A friendly tip: Remember to boolean all the primitives together before you start mapping, or else when you get it in-game, parts of the ship will dissappear when hit. Wink

MScott2273 · **Posted**: 02-10-2007 11:56 PM

ok thanks, and wat exactly do u mean by "boolean the primitives together"? i thought boolean was to subtract one from the other, like for the windows and other things

Adonis · **Posted**: 02-11-2007 03:03 PM

ACE_HIGH · **Posted**: 02-14-2007 05:34 AM

you should add the Nacelle spires to the bussards so that it looks more Pre-TOSish.